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MEPS talk about EU, A single market online
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- MEPS talk about EU, A single market online
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- 15:09
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- EUOBERVER / EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT / BRUSSELS (20 April 2011) The EU is working on a suitable solution to deal with online copyright infringement and internet piracy online. A directive on collective rights management is expected to be published later this year. With that in mind, the Dutch MEP Marietje Schaake from the Liberal ALDE group and the British MEP from the Conservative ECR group, Emma Mc Clarkin sat around a table with the President of Digital Europe, Dr. Erkki Ormala and the Legal Advisor for Gesac, Victoriano Darias to discuss their views on the much-anticipated directive.
Read full story http://euobserver.com/9/32211
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- Do you download music illegally?
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- 1:49
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- EUOBSERVER / BOTANIQUE CONCERT HALL / BRUSSELS (16 April 2011) As the EU is currently preparing new legislation which will determine how artists receive royalties, the EUobserver spoke to a few concert goers at the Botanique Concert Hall in Brussels to find out whether or not they download illegally and how they think artists should get paid.
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- Indie band Rökkurró on music pirating
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- 4:21
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- EUOBSERVER / BOTANIQUE CONCERT HALL / BRUSSELS (16 April 2011) The EU is currently preparing new legislation which will determine how artists receive royalties and are informed by their national collecting societies. This new law will be critical in supporting artists and creativity in the future in Europe. The EUobserver met the indie band Rökkurró from Iceland just after their concert in Botanique in Brussels to find out their opinion on music pirating. They are currently touring Northern Europe.
More more on Rökkurro www.rokkurro.com
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- A Coffee with Cristian Preda about the Ivory Coast
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- 5:40
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- EUOBSERVER / EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, BRUSSELS (15 April 2011) This week, several members of the European Parliament's foreign affairs committee and the European External Action Service expressed doubts over the UN mandate for direct military intervention in the Ivory Coast. But Cristian Preda did not. He was happy with the intervention saying it actually came too late. Listen to the rest of the opinions of the Romanian MEP who led the EU's electoral mission in the Ivory Coast.
Read full story here http://euobserver.com/9/32163
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- Should Belgium & other EU member states welcome refugees?
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- 3:00
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS (7 April 2011) EU officials are calling on EU member states this week to take in refugees from Libya, predominantly from sub-Sahara. Sweden has already said it will welcome some 200. How do EU citizens feel about this? The EUobserver went face to face to find out.
Read full story here www.euobserver.com
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- A coffee with Matthias Verhelst from the European Roma Grassroots Organisation
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- 5:46
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- EUOBSERVER / EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, BRUSSELS (5 April 2011) In a new framework being presented today by the European Commission, the EU calls on member states to draft national strategies for Roma integration by the end of this year.
MATTHIAS VERHELST, a European Roma Policy Coordinator from the European Roma Grassroots Organisation Network thinks this framework is disappointing as it fails to set out any concerted approach to tackle the discrimination of Roma.
Do you agree? Tell us how Roma people are treated in your neighbourhood? Leave us a comment or send us an email to video@euobserver.com
Read full story here http://euobserver.com/9/32126
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- Roma Activist protests against fascist march in Hungarian village
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- 1:10
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- EUOBSERVER / HEJOSZALONTA,HUNGARY (2 April 2011) Roma community members, civil society activists and LMP MPs protest against a torchlit march of 600 members of Hungary's far-right Jobbik party and new formations of the outlawed Magyar Garda in the village of Hejoszalonta, northern Hungary. In this short clip, Agnes Daroczi encourages neighbours to embrace peace and rule of law and denounce fascism.
Read full story here here http://euobserver.com/
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- A coffee with Emilie Turunen about the impact of the economic crisis on young people
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- 6:37
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- EUOBERVER / EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT/ BRUSSELS (28 March 2011) - Government cutbacks are leading to increasing youth unemployment in the European Union. Danish Green MEP Emilie Turunen, the youngest deputy in the European Parliament, shares her concerns about the rising joblessness and social unrest in Europe.
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- A coffee with Heidi Hautala about EU relations with the Arab World
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- 5:31
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- EUOBSERVER / EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, BRUSSELS ( 24 March 2011) As popular revolts sweep through the Arab world in the name of human dignity and basic freedoms, EUobserver sat down with the chair of the human rights subcommittee of the European parliament, FInish MEP Heidi Hautala, to ask her what she thinks about the EU's handling of events
Please leave your comments below or email us at video@euobserver.com
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- Anti-austerity protest at EU Parliament event
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- 1:47
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- EUOBERVER / EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT/ BRUSSELS (23 March 2011) - Protest takes place in the middle of an exclusive event in the European Parliament on Wednesday evening where the Greek culture minister was speaking.
Read full story here http://euobserver.com/9/32058
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- Tunisian migrant calls EU treatment 'shameful'
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- 3:38
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- EUOBERVER / LAMPEDUSA (23 March 2011) - 30-year old Khaled Harobi from Tunisia has been sleeping for two nights under the open sky in Lampedusa, after spending two days in a boat from Tunisia. Some 4,000 are in Lampedusa now, the tiny island between Sicily and Tunisia, that has a population of 5,000.
From there, Valentina Pop reports.
Read full story here http://euobserver.com/9/32043
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- Lampedusa mayor worried over Libya war impact on his island
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- 1:49
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- EUOBERVER / LAMPEDUSA (21 March 2011) - Some 4,000 immigrants are on Lampedusa now, the tiny island between Sicily and Tunisia, all looking for refuge in a centre that is only able to host 800 people. Mayor Bernardino de Rubeis is worried about the impact of the Libyan war on his island, possibly bringing even more refugees there.
From there, Valentina Pop reports.
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- Meet Ali - a Tunisian mechanic looking for a better life in Europe
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- 2:08
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
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- The EUobserver's Valentina Pop is in Lampedusa this week reporting on the situation for immigrants arriving on the tiny island between Sicily and Tunisia. According to our reporter, 4,000 immigrants are on the island now, all looking for refuge in a centre that is only able to host 800 people.
In this video, you will meet Ali, a Tunisian mechanic who is planning to head for Europe in search of a better job.
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- Should the EU rethink its nuclear energy policy?
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- 11:13
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
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- EUOBSERVER / EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, BRUSSELS (16 March 2011) Watch British conservative MEP Giles Chichester discuss the EU nuclear energy policy with the Green German MEP Rebecca Harms in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
All opinions are welcome. Please leave comments below or email us at video@euobserver.com
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- A Coffee with Ashley Fox about the European Parliament's monthly commute to Strasbourg
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- 6:26
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
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- EUOBSERVER / EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, BRUSSELS (16 March 2011) Watch the British MEP Ashley Fox chat to the EUobserver about his efforts to put an end to the European Parliament's monthly commute to Strasbourg.
Leave a comment or write to us at video@euobserver.com
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- Catherine Ashton talks to press ahead of the Informal lunch meeting with Foreign Affairs Ministers
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- 1:26
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
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- On the 10th of March 2011, four weeks after unrest broke out in Libya, EU FOREIGN AFFAIRS Ministers meet in Brussels to plan the upcoming extraordinary European summit about Libya. Watch the EU's High Representative for FOREIGN AFFAIRS Catherine Ashton talk to the press on her way into the foreign affairs meeting in the European Council building in Brussels.
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- Cultural Diversity and Europe 2020
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- 3:47
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
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- Highlights from the EUobserver conference "Cultural Diversity and Europe 2020" held in Brussels January 2011.
Watch all interviews from the conference here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/euobservertv#p/c/6CB8571D0658852F
Conference website for programme and photos:
http://conferences.euobserver.com/cultural/index/
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- Cultural Diversity and Europe 2020 - Simon Morgan
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- 3:13
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
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- Cultural Diversity and Europe 2020 - Ronald Gertz
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- 4:10
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
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- Cultural Diversity and Europe 2020 - Philippe Kern
- Runtime
- 3:58
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
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- Cultural Diversity and Europe 2020 - William Bush
- Runtime
- 4:27
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
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- Cultural Diversity and Europe 2020 - Kostas Rossoglou
- Runtime
- 4:26
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
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- Cultural Diversity and Europe 2020 - Pia Raug
- Runtime
- 3:11
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
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- Cultural Diversity and Europe 2020 - Eamonn Bates
- Runtime
- 3:10
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
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- Cultural Diversity and Europe 2020 - Peter Schønning
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- 3:21
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
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- Cultural Diversity and Europe 2020 - Nicola Frank
- Runtime
- 3:23
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
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- Cultural Diversity and Europe 2020 - Kerstin Jorna
- Runtime
- 3:11
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
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- Cultural Diversity and Europe 2020 - Frank Dostal
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- 3:05
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
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- Cultural Diversity and Europe 2020 - Lisbeth Kirk
- Runtime
- 3:04
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
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- Cultural Diversity and Europe 2020 - Rick Falkvinge
- Runtime
- 4:11
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
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- A Coffee with Ulrike Lunacek & Michael Cashman
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- 6:51
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
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- The EUobserver has a new section on equality and respect for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex people in Europe. In honour of this, the EUobserver caught up two experts on the topic . Watch the two co-Presidents of the European Parliament's very own Intergroup on LGTB rights, British MEP, Michael Cashman (S&D) and Austrian MEP, Ulrike Lunacek chat about their personal experiences and drives as heads of the LTGB group.
For news on LGTB rights in Europe http://euobserver.com/890
For the EP's intergroup on LGTB rights
http://www.lgbt-ep.eu/
'A coffee with Ulrike Lunacek & Michael Cashman' was produced with the technical assistance of Zeki Hacikerimoglu from the European parliament's audiovisual department.
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- President Sarkozy defends Roma crackdown in Brussels
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- 0:25
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
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- EUobserver listening to the French President Sarkozy react to Commissioner Viviene Reding's comments that compared France's expulsion of Roma to the deportations of Jews and Gypsies during World War 11.
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- MEPs talk about EU, the integration of Roma in an expanding Europe
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- 14:02
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
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- Let's Talk about EU is brought to you by the EUobserver.com. Watch members of the European Parliament Kinga GÖNCZ (S&D), Sophia in 't VELD (ALDE), and Nigel FARAGE(EFD) chat about ways to integrate the Roma community into the EU. Post comments below or send us an email to video@euobserver.com.
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- MEPs talk about EU, Where Europe Ends
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- 9:41
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
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- Let's Talk about EU is brought to you by the EUobserver.com. Watch members of the European Parliament Jelko Kacin(ALDE) and Charles Tannock (ECR) chat about EU enlargement in the Western Balkans. Feel free to post comments below or send us an email to video@euobserver.com.
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- MEPs talk about EU, Cross Border Divorce
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- 9:48
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
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- Let's Talk about EU is brought to you by the EUobserver.com. Watch members of the European Parliament Renate Weber, Romania, (ALDE), Nessa Childers, Ireland (S&D) and Tadeusz Zwiefka, Poland (EPP) chat about the current situation for international couples filing for divorce in Europe. Feel free to post comments below or send us an email to video@euobserver.com.
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- MEPS talk about EU, A work free Sunday
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- 9:14
- Date posted
- 16 years ago
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- Let's talk about EU is the brand new monthly current affairs programme brought to you by the EUobserver.com. Shot in the European Parliament in Brussels, the panel debates place controversial topics on the table and see a selection of Members of the European Parliament discuss them. In this debate, you can watch Ilda Figueiredo (GUE/NGL), Nirj Deva (ECR), Antigoni Papadopoulou (S&D) and Nadja Hirsch (ALDE) voice their views on the Protection of a work free Sunday in the EU.
Related EUobserver articles: Commission pressed to protect work-free Sundays, http://euobserver.com/9/29763
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- Online Content and Creative Rights
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- 2:42
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- Highlights from the fourth annual high-level EUobserver conference on creative rights. Held December 2009 in Brussels.
As the reach of the Internet continues to grow, EU regulators are scrambling to understand its implications for copyright and other intellectual property rights.
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- MEPs talk about EU, Body Scanners, Part 1
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- 10:00
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- Let's talk about EU is the brand new monthly current affairs programme brought to you by the EUobserver.com. Shot in the European Parliament in Brussels, the panel debates place controversial topics on the table and sees a selection of Members of the European Parliament discuss them. In this debate you can watch Baroness Sarah Ludford (ALDE), Said Al Khadraoui (S&D), Simon Busuttil (EPP) and Judith Sargentini (Greens) voice their views on body scanning technology.
Related EUobserver articles: EU parliament closes tender for body scanners http://euobserver.com/9/29571
Commissioner favours EU rules on body scanners http://euobserver.com/22/29454
Concerns remain in EU over 'nude' airport scanners http://euobserver.com/?aid=29206
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- MEPs talk about EU, Body Scanners, Part 2
- Runtime
- 9:18
- Date posted
- 17 years ago
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- Let's Talk about EU is the brand new monthly current affairs programme brought to you by the EUobserver.com. Shot in the European Parliament in Brussels, the panel debates place controversial topics on the table and sees a selection of Members of the European Parliament discuss them. In this debate you can watch Baroness Sarah Ludford (ALDE), Said Al Khadraoui (S&D), Simon Busuttil (EPP) and Judith Sargentini (Greens) voice their views on body scanning technology.
Related EUobserver articles:
EU parliament closes tender for body scanners http://euobserver.com/9/29571
Commissioner favours EU rules on body scanners http://euobserver.com/22/29454
Concerns remain in EU over 'nude' airport scanners http://euobserver.com/?aid=29206
